The final results of Sunday’s legislative elections in Sweden will be announced on Wednesday, to include votes from abroad and early, the country’s electoral authority said.
“We will not have a final result tonight,” said outgoing Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson, whose Swedish Social Democratic Party (S/SAP) is in first place with 30.5% of the vote, according to polls. seasons
The bloc led by the head of the Moderate (Conservative) Party, Ulf Kristersson, is close to an absolute majority in the Swedish parliament (Riksdagen, 349 seats) from 175 to 176 seats, compared to 173 to 174 for the left-wing bloc of the first Democratic Socialist minister, according to the latest count.
In the votes counted until 01:00 (00:00 in Lisbon), the right-wing bloc (SD, Moderates, Christian Democrats and Liberals) obtained 49.7%, compared to 48.8% for the left-wing bloc (Social Democrats , Left Party). , The Greens and the Center Party).
Anderson considered that the social democrats obtained a good result: “our support has increased and it is clear that the Swedish social democracy is strong”.
The big winner on election night is the anti-immigration nationalist Swedish Democrats (SD), led by Jimmie Akesson, with 20.7% of the vote, making SD the first party on the right, but also the second in Sweden.
Akesson highlighted the result: “I am very happy and proud of what we did together to achieve this.”
The leader of the SD has highlighted that the objective is to form part of the Government: “if there is a change of power, we will have a central position. Our ambition is to sit in the Government”.
The Moderate Party appears in third place, in the preliminary results, with 19% of the vote, with the leader, Ulf Kristersson, considering that the party had done “everything possible”, calling for unity for the good of the country.
“We have a lot of uncertainty in the world around us and political polarization has become too great, even in Sweden. In this context, I want to unite, not divide,” he said.
In fourth place is the Center Party (6.7%), followed by the Left Party (6.6%), the Christian Democratic Party of Sweden (5.4%), the Green Party (5%) and the Liberal Party of Sweden (4.6%). .
Deaths in settling scores between criminal gangs -which has become a serious social problem- lead the concerns of the Swedes, followed by health and immigration, issues that favored the rise of the nationalist and anti-immigration Swedish Democrats party, until a few years ago isolated in the political scene of the Scandinavian country.
Sweden, which is in the process of joining NATO and will take over the rotating presidency of the Council of the European Union on January 1, has been ruled since 2014 by the Social Democrats, the country’s main party since the 1930s.
Source: TSF
